We walked about three miles of the Fort to Sea Trail north of Seaside, starting at the Sunset Beach trailhead and turning around at the Skipanon River (which makes it the Sea to River trail for us). About the hardest part of this hike is squeezing through the cattle guards. There's a few short climbs but I managed to hobble up them.
As far as natural scenery, you be better off somewhere else. There's a short section where I creaked my neck up long enough to see some birds, but then it was all cow pasture until the highway tunnel. (But maybe you were raised on a farm and are looking for a little nostalgia.) Some deer and elk tracks and scat, which I managed to avoid stepping in.
If you really can't follow in our footsteps, try the 1/3 of a mile to the Sunset Beach viewing platform. (Come on, you probably walk that far in Walmart every time you go in there.) From the platform, we saw..... the beach (and we were expecting.....?) If it's not too cloudy (and it probably is), there's a nice view of Tillamook Head to the south.
Both hikes start from the Sunset Beach trailhead. Look for signs about 8 miles north of Seaside on Highway 101.
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